control: Improved oping's package description.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1303d29d3f9658ade3e43cb4c42962911c7fec7d..9522c574147c6b09bc94d6f2ac7e1f53496f8507 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ liboping (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
     - Build-depend on libncurses5-dev, required by the new "noping" ncurses
       front-end to liboping.
     - Let all packages depend on ${misc:Depends} as recommended by debhelper.
+    - Improved oping's package description.
   * debian/oping.install:
     - Added /usr/bin/noping.
 
- -- Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:32:17 +0200
+ -- Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:21:37 +0200
 
 liboping (1.3.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7997f63890e83f0d80f8d19a6440d6eb53161db1..d540c60275fb3527be6fb1aac9a324cfad112936 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -38,7 +38,12 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, liboping0 (>= ${source:Upstream-Version}),
 Description: sends ICMP_ECHO requests to network hosts
  oping uses ICMP packages (better known as "ping packets") to test the
  reachability of network hosts. It supports pinging multiple hosts in parallel
- using IPv4 or IPv6 transparently.
+ using IPv4 and/or IPv6 transparently.
+ .
+ This package contains two command line applications: "oping" is a replacement
+ for tools like ping(1), ping6(1) and fping(1). "noping" is an ncurses-based
+ tool which displays statistics while pinging and highlights aberrant
+ round-trip times.
 
 Package: libnet-oping-perl
 Section: perl